Say Goodbye to Food Pyramids

I just saw that the USDA has released a new Food Pyramid, and this time it’s not even a pyramid!  Shown to the right, they seem to adoped the new “lickable” visuals popular these days and gone in a new “less is more” direction with the design.  I have to admit, I like it.

Granted, anything is better than the last revision: (shown below).

Say Goodbye to Food Pyramids – Kevin Glass.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .